ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,874, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Distributed active learning in natural language processing for determining resource metrics" was invented by Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.), Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va.) and Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a system for improving machine-learning-based resource allocation by calibrating resource-related sentiments used to configure a dialogue generation model and updating a prior sentiment based on a response to a generated dialogue item, including a set of processors. Embodiments ...